Steve Chen Quotes

My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

If I wasn't acting, I would want to be in the food and restaurant business. I really love to cook and am fascinated by the art of cooking in general.

I used to be a chef.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

I worked as a cook before starting acting.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

I absolutely love the restaurant industry.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

I cook chicken for a living.

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.

I worked as a breakfast cook in a lot of different restaurants.

If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fueled by passion.

I have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.